1871 FREEWILL BAPTIST. The Life of Freewill Baptist & Abolitionist Pioneer, William Burr. ZZAutographsandArtifactsA superb book and very scarce in the trade. It's subject is William Burr, New Hampshire Free Will Baptist minister and editor of one of the state's earliest Anti Slavery papers, The Morning Star. Based in cotton trade dependent Dover, previous to 1834, the Morning Star had been "moderate" in its opposition to slavery, and opposed to Freewill Baptists making it a point of religious contention. But Burr took up the editorship that year and everything
Destitution
"Jesus saith unto him
A few early MSs notes exist
got into Montreal at 10am - took things to other station and hunted up Belle - found her at 12 - had dinner & then Mr
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After a while got a little sleep
Very rare work on early influential Scottish divines
and Spurgeon at his best
though not obstructing the intelligility of the text
With the fellow who comes to take our place
Nathanael Ponder
They saw it as putting slavery on the road to extinction